via neil young. if you could say one thing to young john mayer right before room for squarses, what s that message? there s nothing you could tell that kid. give him a hug and i d say, that guy s really really talented but i don t want to be anywhere near him when that thing goes off. this is what i would tell my young self. you are now my young self. there was never a shot there was never a shot of doing this perfectly. it was never in the cards. that s what i write, people. i wrote this new up-and-coming australian rapper i don t want to give her name away. i said, this is it. i said don t be upset that you re feeling like you re just an inch away from having your cake here this is the new way it s going to be. you re never going to do it
but when we go in the writers room i feel like she s made zero adjustments for all the voices. she s just going to follow her heart and do what she thinks is write, which is an incredibly and hard thing to do. so tell me about your early forays into tv. freaks and geeks, ahead of its time, do you think? i don t know. paul has this incredible idea which is, let s make a show about high school that s real that talks about the misfits and the nerds and the potheads. i like writing about the friend of the good-looking guy or the people on the side. the people that usually don t get a movie is what i find interesting and what paul found interesting. when you say you like to produce works about the guy on the side the guy usually doesn t get the movie, is that because that was you? yeah i always felt that way. i was much younger than the other kids and i was terrible at sports. and where i went to school
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and then we lost him. how did you maintain that light inside you through such difficult and dark times? you even dealt with domestic abuse in one of your marriages. one of my marriages, i had domestic abuse. i want to make very clear it was rick evers so no one thinking it was jerry or anyone else. i guess i m like a plant. i reach for the sun. i never thought of it that way. but i do feel that. i always feel like whatever s going on if there s a choice between being mean-spirited and i ll show him or anything like that i don t go there because i m always reaching for the sun. i m aspirational. in so many of the photos through your entire career you are the only woman in the room. what s your advice to young female artists today? you play with someone like sarah
leslie leslie, in ways that people don t see, she s really my partner on what should the movie be so when i m writing knocked up it s not me in a room alone writing it and handing it to leslie. from first thought it s, what do you think after this? and we re having a conversation for two years and she said, you should do a scene where they try to have sex and it s weird because she s pregnant. do you feel feel strange with your family being on set? absolutely. who s he? i m ben stone. he s my boyfriend. that s nice. i never met him before. so the level of stress for me personally is crazy high. did you worry on a personal level about exposing your kids putting them out there that